Phenomenology and Mysticism: The Verticality of Religious Experience

Exploring the first-person narratives of three figures from the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic mystical traditions--St. Teresa of Avila, Rabbi Dov Baer, and Rūzbihān Baqlī--Anthony J. Steinbock provides a complete phenomenology of mysticism based in the Abrahamic religious traditions. He relates a broad range of religious experiences, or verticality, to philosophical problems of evidence, selfhood, and otherness. From this philosophical description of vertical experience, Steinbock develops a social and cultural critique in terms of idolatry--as pride, secularism, and fundamentalism--and suggests that contemporary understandings of human experience must come from a fuller, more open view of religious experience.

Author: Anthony J. Steinbock
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 10/17/2007
Series: Philosophy of Religion
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.47lbs
Size: 9.39h x 6.51w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780253349347